Summer nutrition is not an exact science. All the more so when it carries its share of received ideas with it. One of the best known is to think that you have to wait at least two hours to bathe after eating. In question: the risk of making a thermal shock, which can lead, in the worst case, to a heart attack or a stroke. “In fact, it is okay to bathe right after a meal., assures Hélène Lemaire, dietician nutritionist. If you have ingested a normal quantity of food, under good conditions, so by chewing well and stopping when you have eaten enough, you can bathe; especially if the water is not ice cold. ”
The expert is categorical: swimming will not stop digestion. “It requires energy work: the blood will flow to the digestive system to process the nutrients, she explains. With a normal amount of food ingested, we are able to do physical exercise, such as 15 minutes of breaststroke or crawl. ” Be careful, however, after a meal that is too large and heavily watered; bathing in very cold water can cause discomfort.
No, ice cream doesn’t make you fat
Another misconception: that according to which eating ice cream makes you fat. It’s always the same principle: if you have an ice cream, but, moreover, you eat less at the next meal, it will not make you fat., indicates Hélène Lemaire. It’s all a question of managing the amount to eat during the day “. This goes as well for the ice cream on the beach in the afternoon as it is for that which serves as dessert during lunch. “Two scoops of ice cream or a little Eskimo is like one serving of sweet dairy, so it’s far from dramatic “, continues the dietician nutritionist.
The word vacation doesn’t rhyme with weight gain
Same story about donuts or fuss on the beach. “Holidays are also made to savor things that we do not normally have the opportunity to eat “, insists Hélène Lemaire. With the summer heat, she finds that some people tend to think that sweating is like losing weight. “It’s wrong, decides the expert. This is equivalent to losing water, which we will recover anyway because our body will ask us to drink. ”
The dietician nutritionist evokes another received idea: that according to which one puts on weight on vacation. “This is not always true, I have patients who lose weight, she assures. There is no longer the stress of work and we have more time to take care of ourselves “. For her, even if we go to a restaurant, we eat less, because we are more in the pleasure of discovery.
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